Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Above, the rise and fall of magma pressure as recorded by USGS radical tilt monitors the past seven days: Halema’uma’u is the green line and blue for Pu`u O`o.

Little has changed in the past week within the Kilauea Volcano eruptive zones, though there certainly is magma movement and lava flowing. This activity is confined to lava upwelling inside both the Halema’uma’u and Pu`u O`o craters.

The crater floor of Pu`u O`o, which had collapsed violently on March 5th when the new fissures erupted, has been filling with new layers of lava fairly steadily; below is a cam-capture of this from this morning.

Seismic activity also remains pretty subdued when compared with the past few years of active surface flows. Here is today’s map showing the past two weeks of quakes (all very tiny temblors):

One good thing for us folks living near these active volcanoes is the levels of sulfur dioxide being emitted from the two craters is holding well below the volumes we had for most of the past three years, which was then about 700 to 1200 metric tonnes or more and is now only 300 to 500 tonnes from both craters combined .

All this information I write about above comes directly from the USGS/HVO volcano update pages and can be found by clicking on the links they provide HERE

Further updates:I will only post further lava activity updates as significant changes occur. If you need a lava-rush -(don’t we all ;) - I would suggest taking some time to wander through past posts on my site. We have had some amazing lava action in the recent past and you can relive it or find posts and photos you may have not seen.

The archives are not as easy to navigate as I would like but here are the basics:Scroll down the right side of this page and you will spot Blog Archive. Click on a year (2010 is pretty exciting :) and it will automatically display the first posts in that year, but to see the titles or to select individual months you will need scroll back down the right side where you will see the post titles and the other months of that years postings. By clicking on any month it will open the first seven posts of that month; one above the other for an easy look-through. And at the top of each month’s page you will be offered a link to see the rest of that months postings, looking like this:Showing newest 10 of 16 posts from October 2010. Show older posts

Saturday, April 2, 2011

As we all wait for more eruptive changes with Kilauea Volcano, we also pay closer attention to any changes taking place now.Not large at 3.5 magnitude, but seems significant, especially after this odd drop straight down on the Kilauea summit tilt graph, shown below and copied at 12:30 PM today. It is also very significant that during this recent magma pressure inflation/deflation stage that Pu`u O`o did not waver and appeared unaffected by the huge pressure spike at the Kilauea summit region; this after having been mimicking the summit the week previously. The Hawaii Volcano Observatory guys are all on it and will likely give us their viewpoints on this.Might be a sign of bigger changes… or not ;)

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About Me

Before retiring this blog my intentions for it were:
I love sharing what is happening here on the Big Island, especially the on-going lava flow and reporting on serious changes in the weather and surf conditions. When I am on-the-ball I offer daily reports (less often during stagnant or non-event times) of these and other Big Island events.
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If you would be interested in seeing my photography of molten lava, surfing and a bunch of other things I point my camera at, visit my photo galleries here: Leigh Hilbert Photography ---------
To view some of my video of the lava flows check out my YouTube website channel; KumukahiHawk
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To hear radio interviews of me talking about the lava flow you can look for the titles & links along the right side of the main page.
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To absorb some of the amazing lava action of the past few years just look through the BLOG ARCHIVES further down this page for the many first-hand accounts, lava photos, videos and stories,
Aloha,
Leigh

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Hana Hou! Magazine story

HanaHou! - the Hawaiian Airlines inflight magazine, published an article on Jack Thompson's life and challenges as the last man standing when the lava finally takes his home. This was in their August/September 2012 edition. They have a condensed version on their WEBSITE. My photos are featured. The photos used in my account of events that day

TV interview - 2 1/2 minutes

2012 radio interview

If you have some time or the interest, Kim McMillon, a host on 'Arts In The Valley' (website linked here) is also a California AM radio station that did an interview with me covering questions about my lava videography & photography, Kilauea history and of my involvement with Jack Thompson and the story of his home lost to lava. The segment is about twenty minutes long:The Interview on mp3